Lizzie Borden House Owner Wants Nearby Coffee Shop Owner To Stop Using Lizzie’s Name

Lizzie Borden House Owner Wants Nearby Coffee Shop Owner To Stop Using Lizzie’s Name

The company that owns the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River is asking a federal appeals court to order a neighboring business to stop calling itself Miss Lizzie's Coffee.

U.S. Ghost Adventures, which owns the house where Lizzie and her father and step-mother used to live, claims the coffee shop is infringing of the house-owning company's trademark.

Boston Black Church Leaders Call For Local Churches To Pay Reparations
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Boston Black Church Leaders Call For Local Churches To Pay Reparations

Tom Joyce

An organization called the Boston People's Reparations Commission, led by members of some of the black Christian churches in the city, want what they call "white" churches to pay reparations to blacks in Boston.

"Many of the well-known white churches in downtown Boston are connected to the slave trade and the proliferation of what was a 'slavetocracy' in our city," Reverend Kevin Peterson, the organization's founder, recently told WHDH.

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